THE NOBLES OF NEWLAND (BLOODLINER AND THE TALES OF THE NEW SAGA BOOK 1)

Chapter 4: Dania

"I got Sakura on My Weekend."

Grand Shopping Center,

Capitol, The Republic

DANIA AND THE TWO BOYS ARRIVED AT THE SHOPPING CENTER RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY. Noval gets a sudden phone call and rushes off. Earlier, dropped them off at the entrance of Grand Shopping Center.

"There's a sudden issue. From a record producer, you know. Sorry, can't accompany you this time." Noval said, then he turned to Alde, "I'll pick you both up if I could. Please take care of this wayward girl for me. Bye." Then he acted away with his cool.

"He always found so many reasons to get away from shopping time," Dania said, speaking for herself as she looked at Noval's car disappearing from view. "Okay. I hate Noval, so I treated you anything. You're my date today!" He said to Alde cheerfully, holding his hand.

"Seriously, anything?" Alde said he was interested.

"Yup! As usual. Come on!"

Dania covered her face with large black glasses and a wide-sided hat so that no one recognized her. It can be a hassle if fans or journalists see it. She wore a flat knee-length hologram dress in milk brown with super high golden heels that made Alde look even shorter. Her blonde hair was left to unravel beautifully on the right of her shoulders. A bag with her family brand was side by arm. Alde himself used a hologram of his favorite outfit, a white hoody with a headgear that he almost never used. His subordinate this time was a long chino with flip flop matching shoes to compensate for Dania. Twin hi-cloth hologram watches adorn the left hand of both of them.

The shopping center is a modern design building with state-of-the-art ten-story facilities as high as twenty normal floors with an area of 100 hectares. With a wide variety of stores that sell various types of needs, which are divided into several sectors. The inside of the Mall, each floor has an open middle roof where an oval-shaped mini elevator that can float, fit for five people, which will take you to a certain floor without queuing for too long. The elevators, there are so many in the middle of the ground floor gathered like sunflowers. Right at the far north, a giant six-story-high monitor screen covers the walls, broadcasting various advertisements and product promotions and promos. So big this Mall, no matter how crowded customers who fill each floor, there will still be many spots that are quiet and even empty.

Dania and Alde stopped briefly at the camera shop. Alde screamed excitedly when he saw the insect robot-shaped camera ad broadcast on the giant monitor.

"You know this is the latest camera with a limited series. This model of insect is called the horn beetle, it's a symbol of my family. I didn't expect it to be sold out yet. There are still three left! You know, the horn beetle symbolizes a..."

Dania didn't remember the rest of Alde explanation because she didn't want to know more about insects, let alone those with horns. Dania hurriedly decided to treat Alde the cameras. "I already know what it means. I just wonder why a family of doctor like you chose that insect as a sigil. I mean, please, it even failed as a model of a camera. Let's make it sold out. Shame on us!"

"Hey! There are three out of twenty left!"

Alde's protest was not accepted. But he turned excited again when the three cameras were already his. After that they headed straight to the center of clothing and accessories using an elevator, followed by a horn beetle machine that flew for angles and photographed them every time Alde pressed his phone, two other beetles neatly wrapped in a grocery bag in Alde's left hand.

"This camera is really multi-functional, can be connected with various tools at once. Mobile phones, televisions, laptop, even giant monitor screens in this mall. And with my ability to hack systems and the internet, I'm sure it's going to be fun."